[Miss Marple]

I forget where you live, lysander, but the bad side to this season has just appeared here this week. JAPANESE BEETLES. This is the earliest I have seen them...usually they don't make an appearance here until mid-July. Now I have to decide whether to spray or not. I didn't spray last year because of the honey bee shortage, and I try not to use too many pesticides because of birds and wildlife, but if their numbers are as high as it looks like they may be, I may be forced to get out the sprayer.

[lysie]

Central New York , 30 minutes north of Syracuse. Hope we don't get the beetles. So far so good.